Seeing the knight who reported the message rushing into the county town, Li Xu had a guess in his heart, but he did not go directly to the county government office, but went back to the inn first.

After returning to the inn, they found that Li Qin and Zhang Mingrong were not in the inn, and only a few women stayed in the yard to wash clothes. When they saw Li Xu coming back, they hurriedly got up to salute.

After Li Xu asked, he learned that during the days since he left, Li Qin and Zhang Mingrong had been busy with Lingyun Tower with a group of women, and only came back to bed at night.

These women couldn't help, so they could only be responsible for helping everyone wash clothes and do some chores.

After getting to know each other, Li Xu returned to his yard and told the waiter to bring hot water.

The waiter brought hot water. After Li Xu washed up briefly, his fatigue from galloping along the way was relieved a lot, so he ordered the guards to guard the door and no one was allowed to come in without permission.

After the explanation was made, Li Xu sat at the table and began to think carefully about his next plan.

If he was a commoner before and many things were not convenient to do, then now he has the reputation of being a martial artist and the official status of a county magistrate, and many things he could not do before can now be done.

Judging from the cavalry that conveyed emergency military information just now, it is definitely not because there is a problem with the border. The biggest possibility is that the high-bearded rebels in Yan'an Prefecture have had new trends, and it is very likely that they have gone south.

After all, the foundation of Qin is in the Guanzhong region. If the Wei people behind Gao Huzi are supported, the Wei people of course hope that Gao Huzi will be more dynamic, so they will definitely not agree that Gao Huzi will stagnate in Yan'an Prefecture.

As long as Gao Huzi can go south to threaten Guanzhong, it will cause a series of reactions, such as Qin mobilizing border troops to return to aid, which will cause the emptiness of Hangu Pass and Tongguan, and the Wei army will have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

This is almost foreseeable consequence unless there is any unexpected variable.

Although all counties in Guanzhong have now begun to recruit township heroes and form township brave camps, it takes time for the township brave camps to form combat effectiveness.

It is obvious that Gao Huzi and the Wei people could not give Guanzhong counties too much time, and they are not fools.

As long as you mess up the Guanzhong as soon as possible, it is impossible for the main force of the Qin army stationed at the border to move without trying.

Moreover, Li Xu further divergently thought that the people of Wei could support the Gaohuzi's rebellion behind their backs. So would they incite and instigate the small Western countries in the west, even the Mongolian and Tartars in the north, to make trouble for the Qin State at the same time?

If that is true, then the Qin State will be in trouble.

Therefore, under this situation, the speed of establishing a township yong camp in Guanzhong counties will inevitably be greatly accelerated, and the threshold will definitely be lowered. So this is a good opportunity for Li Xu to quickly turn the township yong camp into his own land.

When he thought of it, Li Xu clicked on the system panel and found the barracks. After some operations on it, he expanded the total number of troops to the previous planned one thousand soldiers. The expanded total strength included a musket brigade of 150 people, a light cavalry brigade of 200 people; two archer brigade of 300 people, two spear brigade of 300 people, and one grenadier squadron brigade of 50 people.

These expanded troops will arrive at the Malanshan base within two days.

In addition to expanding the army, Li Xu also recruited another 300 farmers, increased the labor force of the base, reclaimed more wastelands and accelerated the efficiency of logging.

Finally, he issued an order to build a Taoist temple.

After the Taoist temple was built, it could be used to summon Taoist priests. These Taoist priests who had both martial arts and knew how to treat medical treatment and pray for blessings were an important part of his intelligence network.

This series of action arrangements consumed almost all the money Li Xu had accumulated through various channels during this period and half of the food, but Li Xu felt it was very worth it.

With this thousand soldiers, his previous plan to walk on both legs with light and dark can be carried out.

After the system was settled, Li Xu began to write letters to Tan Lun, first, he asked him to put 300 archers, 300 spearmen and 100 light cavalrymen in batches after the newly expanded troops arrived at the base.

These people will be incorporated into the township camp by Li Xu as a young and strong person in the county, becoming his core force to firmly grasp the township camp.

In the future, he will definitely gradually replace all the 3,000 places in the township Yongchang in Sanshui County and Township with his own direct troops, ensuring that the township Yongchang armed forces can only hear their own voices.

He naturally understood the confidence that the county magistrate Liu Jian gave the Township Yongying to him with confidence, but Liu Jian's plan to use money and grain to jamm his neck was destined to not be realized.

Because he would never have thought that the troops in the Township Yong Camp were composed of three thousand soldiers who were 100% loyal to Li Xu.

Even more unexpectedly, Li Xu has a base that can supply food and grass.

The second thing is to hand over the distribution map of bandits in Guanzhong to Tan Lun, and let Tan Lun follow the map and cooperate with him, with a targeted approach, using the extermination of these bandits to grow rapidly.

At the same time, he instructed Tan Lun to arrange a team of people to play the robbers. According to Li Xu's idea, this "robbers" team should not move in Sanshui County, but in other counties around, with the main targets being those gentry and landlords.

What is the purpose? Of course, the purpose is to raise money and food. Although these gentry and landlords are not famous, they have a rich family background.

Take Lijiazhuang as an example. Although Li Xu came forward to Chen's family and asked for 500 shi of grain and 5,000 taels of silver, it was only half of the Li family's savings.

And Lijiazhuang is not really a big landlord in the entire Guanzhong area.

It can be seen how rich the family background of these gentry landlords is.

What's more, these gentry, landlords and rural tyrants have the habit of hiding silver, which objectively creates a situation where silver is short and silver prices soar.

Since they don’t like spending money, Li Xu will help them spend it.

However, landlords are good and bad. Although Li Xu is greedy for others' money and food, he will not kill them all in one size fits all.

He must be treated differently according to his deeds. As for the standard, it is up to Tan Lun to grasp it. Li Xu is still very confident in him.

As for why he should not move in Sanshui County, it is because Li Xu will soon be the county magistrate of Sanshui County. If this "robber" is too famous and Liu Jian asks him to lead troops to suppress the bandits, Li Xu will not be able to go there. If he goes there, he will not be able to fight. If he doesn't fight, he will be in a dilemma.

Thinking of this, Li Xu suddenly thought of a possibility: if his "robbers" team became too famous in the future and attracted Gao Huzi's attention. If Gao Huzi sent someone to recruit him, would he want them to take the opportunity to invade Gao Huzi's subordinates?

If that's true, that would be interesting.

In addition to the above two things, Li Xu briefly mentioned his visit to Yaozhou City this time.

After writing the letter, he checked again and found that nothing was missing. Then he found an envelope and planned to send someone back to the base early tomorrow morning.

After finishing all this, Li Xu opened the door and saw a person waiting quietly at the door. He looked at it but it was a guard who had been arranged by Tan Lun to obey orders.

The guard's face was dusty, and when he saw Li Xu, he immediately bowed and said respectfully: "Lord, Mr. Tan asked Bei Yi to send a letter."

Li Xu took the letter and signaled another guard to take him down to wash and rest. He returned to the room and opened Tan Lun's letter and read it.

After seeing it, I snorted lightly and thought to myself that I had indeed expected it.
Chapter completed!